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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: Middle-earth's Rambo | Of the Fifth Battle | #29
Description: Tolkien holds nothing back when the races of Middle-earth decide to take on Morgoth. There’s treachery, gore, rage, victory, defeat–pretty much what Game of Thrones tried to be.
Join Jonathan and Michael as they discuss chapter 20 of The Silmarillion, “Of the Fith Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad”. This is probably one of the hardest chapters to figure out; it brings together many of the characters we’ve met, but in new circumstances and starts tying together storylines that will see a future payoff.
And test yourself if you can recognize the cameos in Peter Jackson’s Lord of th...